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...years, the Berlin Wall stood as a symbol of the division between Eastern and Western Europe. So when East and West Berliners tore it down one night in November of 1989, it seemed as though this division would break down, too. Communist regimes throughout the region were replaced by democratically elected governments, and in 1991 even the mighty Soviet Union broke apart...
...Nearly 860 people were killed in flooding and landslides after Ketsana and typhoon Parma tore into Luzon, the country's largest island, in late September and early October. Four weeks later, sections of the city and some surrounding provinces are still underwater, and state-run hospitals have been overwhelmed by an outbreak of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread from the urine of infected rats and other animals. (In Sri Lanka, where there was a large outbreak in 2008, leptospirosis is known as "rat fever.") The bacterium is transmitted by the standing floodwater through cuts in the skin and by people...
When Pam gets distressed because she tore her veil, Jim cuts off his tie and tells her, “Now we’re even...
When Pam gets distressed because she tore her veil, Jim cuts off his tie and tells her, “Now we’re even...
...group 226 had valiantly participated in all of the requisite River Run shenanigans (back in the days when HUPD stayed on the sidelines). We were hunkered down in a cold Hollis room, slap happy and looking rather disheveled from staying up all night when the letter finally arrived. We tore open the envelope to learn that we were Matherites. Now, naïve freshman that I was, I hadn’t so much as laid eyes upon Mather House until the previous night’s housing revelry and didn’t have much of an opinion about...